it has nothing to do -- you know, assad may be a terrible, but he's not hitler. and it's not the same as when the western powers were basically trying to figure out how not to do anything over czechoslovakia, and here we really are trying to do something and being fairly good and calibrated about it. and then a lesson that colin powell really made at every meeting was, if you're going to go in, you've got to figure out how to get out. you've always got to have an exit strategy. so i think there are lessons to be learned, not just from munich, but from all the things that have happened in the last 60 years. >> madeleine albright, thank you. >>> coming up, there are currently 80 living recipients of the military's highest decoration, the medal of honor. this year, we have the honor of speaking with two of those men, former staff sergeant sal junta and former sergeant dakota meyer. their gripping stories are ahead on "morning joe." >>> and up next, the day a nation lost its president. our conversation with chris matthews on jfk, elusive hero. stay with us. [ cellpho